Now more than ever, technology is influencing the way we do business, communicate, move through and around the world, access and manage our homes, receive and administer healthcare, make purchases, secure information, and protect our most valuable property. Morrison Foerster keeps pace with this rapidly evolving landscape across our internationally recognized corporate, finance, intellectual property, and litigation practices. MoFo Tech brings together our insights relating to fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and as-a-service technologies, driverless cars, drones, fintech, computer hardware and software, the Internet of Things, semiconductors, and telecommunications. The MoFo Tech blog offers real-time, in-depth analyses of the trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry.<h2>ABOUT MORRISON FOERSTER</h2>Morrison Foerster is a leading global law firm that transforms complexity into advantage for its clients. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, banks, consulting and accounting firms, and Fortune 100, technology, and life sciences companies. Highlighting the firm’s commitment to client service, leadership in market-changing deals and impact litigation, and values-based culture, Morrison Foerster has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top 10 firms on The American Lawyer’s A-List. Year after year, the firm receives significant recognition from Chambers and The Legal 500 across their various guides, including Global, USA, Asia‑Pacific, Europe, UK, Latin America, and FinTech Legal. Our lawyers passionately care about delivering legal excellence while living our values. Morrison Foerster has a long-standing commitment to creating a culture that respects and celebrates differences, while providing an inclusive environment. The firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus since 2018 as a result of successfully reaching at least 30 percent women, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ lawyer representation in a notable number of current leadership roles and committees. The firm also has a long history of commitment to the community and society through providing pro bono legal services, including litigating for civil rights and civil liberties, improving public education and fostering the wellbeing of children, advocating for veterans, promoting international human rights, enforcing the right to asylum, and safeguarding the environment.

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Scott Llewellyn’s practice focuses on complex litigation in federal and state courts around the country, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret disputes. Over the past decade, he has worked on some of the most significant, high–profile IP cases involving technology for televisions, smartphones, and self–driving cars, relying on 40 years of experience with computer hardware and software. Scott also has significant experience with business divorce cases before courts and arbitrators, involving a mix of trade secret, patent, tort, and contract claims relating to technology development and implementation.Scott also has successfully tried general commercial arbitration and agency matters, briefed and argued various appeals in federal appellate court, and tried more than 20 cases for the Denver City Attorney’s office, most of them jury trials.Scott also has an active pro bono practice, having worked on a variety of criminal and immigration appeals, and having represented Colorado criminal defense and mental health organizations in high–profile suits against the state of Colorado for violations of the constitutional rights of defendants.At MoFo, Scott serves on the board of the Morrison & Foerster Foundation. In the broader legal community, he serves on the boards of the Colorado Lawyers Committee and Drop in the Bucket (a charity that builds wells and sanitation systems in sub–Saharan Africa).After law school, Scott clerked for the Honorable Clarence A. Brimmer, District of Wyoming, and the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Ninth Circuit. He was also previously an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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Scott Llewellyn’s practice involves complex litigation before state and federal courts around the country, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret disputes for high-tech companies, to which he brings more than 35 years of experience with computer hardware and software, in particular relating to the processing and transmission of audio, video, voice, and other types of data. Mr. Llewellyn has also tried commercial arbitration and agency matters; briefed and argued various appeals in federal appellate court; and tried more than 20 cases for the Denver city attorney’s office, most of them jury trials.

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Japan’s Approach to AI Regulation in 2025

Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements for Prior Art Under Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)

AI Agent as a Service in Medtech - Key Considerations for Commercial Contracts

D.C. Circuit Holds that Works Created Solely by AI are Not Copyrightable

Navigating Inventorship in the Era of AI-Assisted Drug Discovery

ICT standardization is a key part of the European Union’s package of measures designed to improve Europe’s competitiveness and productivity. As part of the EU’s Digital Single Market initiative, the European Commission has been working on common ICT standards that would ensure the interoperability of digital technologies, services, and devices. Standardization in the ICT sector is important both for software and hardware developers because it covers areas such as data management and interoperability as well as security of smart devices. The Commission has encouraged businesses operating in the EU to get involved in various standards-related organizations and to participate in the newly-created platform on European standardization.Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/4FeQCR65kXUXxXYXCP6Kzo">client alert</a>.

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Wolfgang advises clients on contentious and non-contentious matters involving their most valuable intellectual property assets in the digital, high-tech, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries.

Wolfgang Schönig

Wolfgang Schönig is a partner of Morrison Foerster (International) LLP based in our German office in Berlin. His practice specialty is advising on IP aspects relative to transactions in, among others, the life sciences, AgTech and pharmaceuticals industry, as well as legal representation in IP disputes. Wolfgang is specialized in research and development collaborations, complex licensing agreements, technology acquisitions, know-how protection strategies, and employee invention law.

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Alistair Maughan co-leads Morrison & Foerster's European Technology & Commercial Practice.

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Alistair advises on the deployment of new technology platforms involving, for example, the internet of things, AI and machine-learning, and blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

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Digital Single Market Update: Technology Standardization in the EU

Don’t Get Caught by the Phisherman’s Hook This Tax Season

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ICT standardization is a key part of the European Union’s package of measures designed to improve Europe’s competitiveness and productivity. As part of the EU’s

Digital Single Market Update: Technology Standardization in the EU

Be Morrison & Foerster’s guest at 451 Research’s Tech M&A Summit, an event that promises to help potential participants in the machine-learning acquisitions frenzy to navigate this emerging technology trend.Fueled by a motivation to unlock the value of big data, machine-learning companies are being acquired in record numbers, with M&A activity overall on pace to be three times higher than it was just three years ago, according to 451 Research’s M&A KnowledgeBase. But executing a successful machine-learning deal requires knowledge that only professionals familiar with the space can provide.Scheduled for Thursday, November 1 in Palo Alto, Calif., the program will include talks, panel discussions, and networking opportunities designed to help corporate development professionals, M&A attorneys, VCs, private equity professionals, bankers, and C-level executives at technology companies to succeed in the machine-learning acquisitions arena.Register <a href="http://go.451research.com/join-mofo-tech-ma-summit-palo-alto-2018.html">today</a>.

Accela's Sale to Berkshire Partners

Alpine Investors' Multiple Acquisitions

Altamont Capital Partners' Multiple Acquisitions

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DigiCert's Sale to Clearlake Capital and TA Associates

GI Partners and Doxim's Multiple Acquisitions

Gryphon Investors' Acquisition of RegEd

HG Capital and CINC's Acquisition of ONR

Internet-Journals, Inc.'s Sale to Elsevier

Main Post Partners' Multiple Transactions

Palladium Equity Partners' Multiple Acquisitions

Presidio Investors' Acquisition of Golden Pear Funding

Rubicon Technology Partners' Multiple Acquisitions

San Francisco Equity Partners' Multiple Acquisitions

SoftBank's Acquisition and Sale of Boston Dynamics

Unilever's Acquisition of Dollar Shave Club

Vector Capital's Acquisition of Patron Technology

Virgo Investment Group's Investment and Asset Sale

Vision Ridge Partners' Investment in Guzman Energy Group

Windjammer Capital and Flinn Scientific's Acquisition of WhiteBox Learning

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Global Co-Chair of Private Equity Practice

Patrick is a partner in the Corporate Department of Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, specializing in Private Equity M&A.

Patrick is a partner in the Corporate Department of Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, specializing in Private Equity M&A.
Patrick has significant experience representing private equity firms

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Patrick Huard

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You’re Invited: 451 Research’s Tech M&A Summit

New Rules on Merger Control, Market Dominance, Damages Claims, and Cartel Fines

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Be Morrison & Foerster’s guest at 451 Research’s Tech M&A Summit, an event that promises to help potential participants in the machine-learning acquisitions fre

You’re Invited: 451 Research’s Tech M&A Summit

Last week, the English High Court limited the availability of collective actions for data breaches to identifiable individuals who have suffered specific and discernible damage. In Richard Lloyd v Google LLC, the Court refused to allow a representative action alleging breach by Google of its duties under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DP Act 1998”) to proceed. The Court reinforced the need to prove “damage” resulting from data privacy breaches in order to claim compensation and continued its policy of reluctance to permit English court procedures to be used to bring U.S.-style “opt-out” class actions.The case reinforces the need to prove damage or distress when bringing data breach claims, as well as the hurdles involved in bringing representative actions in the English courts. It will also be relevant to claims for breach of the new Data Protection Act 2018 (“DP Act 2018”) (which has largely replaced the DP Act 1998) and could therefore serve as a deterrent to future claims.Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/RXqWCVO0oWI89PvycyGBW8">client alert</a>.

Lloyd v Google – English High Court Blocks Collective Data Breach Claim

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Annabel is a partner at Morrison Foerster and co-Managing Partner of the London office.

Annabel Gillham

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Lloyd v Google – English High Court Blocks Collective Data Breach Claim

Google Ordered to Comply with Warrant for Foreign-Stored User Data

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Last week, the English High Court limited the availability of collective actions for data breaches to identifiable individuals who have suffered specific and di

The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), which became law on August 13, 2018, effected sweeping change to the authority and processes of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). Many of FIRRMA’s most significant changes were not effective immediately, however, as they are subject to rulemaking by the Department of the Treasury. If there were any questions whether Treasury would let the regulatory process initiated by FIRRMA linger, those questions were just answered with the release of unprecedented new CFIUS regulations that include possible multi-billion dollar fines across almost 30 critical technology-related industries, and provisions that make filing certain notifications with CFIUS mandatory. Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/XqlQCv29RwtZBQnJTzQpia">client alert</a>.

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Bob Litt, former General Counsel for the Director of National Intelligence, is of counsel and co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Global Risk and Crisis Management group. He advises industry-leading org

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Robert Litt

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Charles Capito is a partner in both Morrison Foerster’s National Security and Government Contracts + Public Procurement practices.
In the National Security space, he has significant experience couns

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New CFIUS Pilot Program Expands U.S. Government Review of Tech Transactions

California Supreme Court Clarifies Standards for Whistleblower Claims Under California Labor Code Section 1102.5

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The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), which became law on August 13, 2018, effected sweeping change to the authority and proc

New CFIUS Pilot Program Expands U.S. Government Review of Tech Transactions

Updating and building on guidance issued one year ago, the U.S. Department of Transportation published a new federal guidance document entitled Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0 (“AV 3.0”). AV 3.0, released on October 4, 2018, incorporates extensive stakeholder feedback to provide updated voluntary guidance and policy considerations regarding safety standards and federal agencies’ roles in the development process of automated vehicles.Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/jj64CwpR2xSnXRWjT9eJgg">client alert</a>.